52Pi Touch Screen Calibration Tutorial

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Touch Screen Calibration Tutorial

How to calibrate a touch screen on Raspberry Pi?

1. Download Raspbian image and burn your TF card with win32_imager or other tools.

2. Login your Raspberry Pi and connect your Pi to Internet.

3. Execute the following command to update your system:

sudo apt-get update

4. Install the packages to calibrate your touch screen

sudo apt-get -y install xinput libx11-dev libxext-dev x11proto-input-dev evtest dh-autoreconf

libts-bin libxi-dev

5. Download calibration tools from github by executing this command：

cd ~

git clone https://github.com/tias/xinput_calibrator

cd ~/xinput_calibrator

sudo ./autogen.sh

sudo make

sudo make install

6. Calibrating your touch screen:

DISPLAY=:0.0 xinput_calibrator

7. Press the cross on the screen in 4 corners and save configuration.

8. Save the touch screen configuration to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf file:

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9. Create a new folder and save the parameters in the red box of the above picture to the file in

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf

sudo mkdir -pv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

sudo vim.tiny /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf

Section “InputClass”

Identifier “calibration”

MatchProduct “eGalax Inc. USB TouchController”

Option “Calibration” “1953 60 1816 129”

Option “SwapAxex” “0”

EndSection

PS: Fill in the value of Option Calibration according to your own calibrating result.

10. Reboot your Raspberry Pi and have fun with it.

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